What always strikes me as funny is how many times I’ve met with an owner of a company who says to me, “I strongly believe my employees should have business training, but I’m not in to all that personal growth stuff.”  I feel torn after they say it. If I tell him or her that in order to grow their business they need to do more than just the standard business trainings we’ve all been through, they may ask me to leave right then. I want to tell them that in addition to high quality business training, it is imperative for them to learn about their personal blocks and mistaken beliefs that might prevent their companies from growing. If a CEO of a company, lets call him Tom, has a deep underlying belief that life is a struggle you can be sure that that belief is reflected in the success of his company.  Or if Kate, a different CEO, grew up believing everyone around her gets a bigger piece of the pie than her, her company will most likely reflect back those beliefs and not expand as fast as it could.

So the bottom line in my belief is that in order to experience business growth it is worthy and important to engage in “personal growth stuff”.  But do I tell?

Tags: business, CEO, Personal Growth, training

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